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FAN CLUB

Erin Mayer

In this raucous psychological thriller a millennial office worker finds relief from her crippling ennui in the embrace of a cliquey fan club, until she discovers the group of women is bound together by something darker than devotion.
Day after day our narrator, a gloomy millennial, searches for meaning beyond her vacuous job at a women's lifestyle website--entering text into a computer system while she watches their beauty editor unwrap box after box of perfectly packaged bits of happiness. Then, one night at a dive bar, she hears a message in the newest single by child-actor-turned-international-pop-star Adriana Argento, and she is struck. Soon she loses herself to the online fandom, a community whose members feverishly track Adriana's every move. When a colleague notices the extent of her obsession, she's invited to join an enigmatic group of adult Adriana superfans who call themselves the Ivies and worship her music in witchy, candlelit listening parties. As the narrator becomes more entrenched in the group, she gets closer to uncovering the sinister secrets that bind them together--while simultaneously losing her grip on reality. With caustic wit and hypnotic writing, this unsparingly critical thrill ride through millennial life examines all that is wrong in our celebrity-obsessed internet age, and how easy it is to lose yourself in it. Erin Mayer is a freelance writer and editor based in New York. Her work has appeared in Business Insider, Man Repeller, Literary Hub, and others. She was previously an associate fashion and beauty editor at Bustle.com. Fan Club is her debut novel.
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Published 2021-10-26 by Mira

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Twisty and suspenseful and loaded with sharp social commentary, FAN CLUB is both a thriller and a modern-day millennial anthem. Stylish, hypnotic, and impossible to put down. Meet your new obsession.

Celebrity-obsession becomes deadly in Fan Club by Erin Mayer. When a disillusioned millennial finds a sense of purpose within a group of fans devoted to tracking every move a famous pop star makes, she soon realises there is something sinister lurking beneath the club's obsessive love for the celeb. Read more...

In Mayer's deft hands, quarterlife burnout and the weirdness of celeb culture are compulsively fascinating. Like a good tabloid scandal, I couldn't turn away. So twisted. So fun.

Bored with her dull day job, an unnamed millennial narrator grows increasingly obsessed with pop star Adriana Argento. When she gets invited to join a group of superfans, she is fascinated by their mystical celebrations of Adriana's music. But soon, she finds herself deeply entrenched in the group's dark secrets. Read more...

In former Bustle editor Erin Mayer's blistering debut, her millennial narrator is bored out of her mind working at a women's magazine, obsessing over the beauty editor's many freebies and taking as many coffee breaks as possible. One day, she finds new purpose in the hidden meanings of a pop star's new hit, joining a devoted group of superfans whose dedication to their diva knows no bounds. Read more...

Erin Mayer bursts onto the scene as a fresh new voice with something to say... FAN CLUB lays bare the terrible destiny of a society obsessed with social media stalking and celebrity relationships that exist only through the glow of a screen.

This deliciously dark thriller will leave readers wanting more from Mayer. Read more...